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    Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 8 years ago

    The little woodpecker that drills away at the trees around here is back! He’s unafraid and lets me get close to watch…. Beautiful little bird!

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      DanaThomas replied 8 years ago

      The woodpecker (Picus) figures in archaic Roman mythology. The handsome Picus was a son of Saturn (an association with the Golden Age) and was sought after by Nymphs and Naiads, whom he rejected. But after rejecting the sorceress Circe she turned him into a woodpecker out of pique. He is also associated with the archaic Roman Mars, a figure more linked to agriculture and fertility than the later warlike Ares.

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      DownunderET replied 8 years ago

      Ask him if his name is “Woody”